The Solus project is moving very fast, and its developers have managed to push another release out the door, this time with a lot of fixes that have been spotted and repaired in a very short amount of time.

Today, containers are becoming the default way that people put apps on clouds. In no small part, that’s because containers didn’t become standardized until libcontainer appeared in 2014. But then Docker headed in its own direction, and others, starting with CoreOS, started splitting off. Fortunately, instead of forking themselves into irrelevance, almost all the containers powers got back on the same page with the Open Container Project (OCP).

We recently released Docker Machine 0.3.0. I am a maintainer on the project, and I want to share with you some of the goodness that we have been working hard on integrating in the months since the previous release.

I reached out to the intel_idle maintainer Len Brown and others to see if they had any leads, but given the US holiday weekend, I don't expect much activity this weekend. Just posting this brief update in case anyone has encountered a similar problem or ideas. I'm quite excited to get the Core i7 5775C up for Linux benchmarking. I'm even half-tempted to see if the CPU plays nicely under FreeBSD to try to isolate it as a software or hardware trouble.

The task involves making a KVTML editor for LibKEduVocDocument which will be available to all the applications using it. For that I have been moving the editor of Parley to the library. I had started off with moving the model classes, and after that moved on to the view/delegate classes and the various widgets, and simultaneously updating Parley to use the newly moved classes of the library. Currently I am moving the main Editor Window, and I expect to complete it soon enough.

Up until now, Boxes' stopped machines were represented by a black box. It was nice as it represented the idea of a shut down screen, but it was pretty hard to differentiate a stopped machine from a running one displaying a black screen. This was stated in bug #730258 where Jimmac suggested to follow this design where thumbnails are draw as gray frames with a medium sized emblem in their center, using the system-shutdown-symbolic icon to suggest the stopped state.

The GNOME Foundation and the Wau Holland Foundation (Wau Holland Stiftung; WHS) have recently reached an agreement that will significantly improve the way donations to GNOME within the European Union (EU) are received and managed.

Red Hat Inc logoJPMorgan Chase & Co. restated their overweight rating on shares of Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) in a research note issued to investors on Thursday, Analyst Ratings Net reports. The firm currently has a $85.00 price target on the open-source software company’s stock, up from their previous price target of $82.00.

The first upload of new packages after TeX Live 2015 hit unstable. Against my expectations, the bugs didn’t come in in the thousands, more or less there were only some fixes necessary in the binary package, which lead to a few updates over the last week. This upload fixes an RC bug (missing replaces), and also takes a step further in the Debianization of the packages: I finally removed texconfig and texlinks programs, as they are not useful on Debian, and should actually not be used.

Canonical has just announced that an Ubuntu version of the Intel Compute Stick, on sale this coming week and priced around $110. The Intel Compute Stick is a small HDMI dongle that you plug into a TV or monitor and provides a full PC experience. It’s a great idea as something falling between a Chromecast device and a full media centre…

The annual Tizen Developer Conference (TDC) will be held 17-18 September 2015 in Shenzhen, China. The conference will feature keynotes from industry leaders, as well as technical talks for app developers, platform designers, independent software developers (ISV), OEMs, hardware and software vendors. This conference is for open source and app developers who are interested in contributing to the growth of the Tizen ecosystem worldwide.

I am always wary of posting articles like this, but sometimes what developers with influence say needs pointing out. This time Jonathan Blow who created the hit indie game Braid has been blasting Linux gaming.

Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri is a classic tactical shooter that now has a Linux version on GOG, and it's highly rated. Originally released in 1996, it has been given new life on GOG's digital shelves.

A recent article about Jon Blow has spurred other developers getting in touch, and one developer is Brushfire Games, the developer of Shipwreck. Their sales are looking good, and they have some thoughts.

It's really good to see games aimed at all ages coming to Linux, it will certainly help those of us with young families get into Linux. These games are powered by the open source ScummVM project, so thanks to those guys too. I plan to introduce my son to games like this when he's old enough, and I can thank GOG for allowing me to do that easily.

The first wave of Android One devices launched in India in September 2014. The selection of low-end phones was supposed to help Android tackle "the next billion users"—people in developing countries who had never owned a smartphone before. The devices were spec'd about as low as possible—4.5-inch 480p screens, 1.3GHz MediaTek processors, and 4GB of storage—which gave them a really low price of about $105. According to the report, this new wave of devices sits a lot higher on the price spectrum: about $189 (Rs 12,000).

A report published on Friday says that a new Android One handset will be unveiled in India on July 17. A local handset manufacturer, Lava International, is producing the model which will be priced at the equivalent of $189 USD. According to those familiar with Google's thinking, version 2.0 of Android One will be aimed at those who have used a smartphone before. Previously, the low priced Android One models were designed for first-time smartphone buyers in emerging markets.

Too many Android phones are running old software with security flaws, according to Dutch consumer association Consumentenbond, which wants manufacturers to update their phones’ software more often, and for longer.

The association tested 171 Android smartphones that it had acquired over the last two years, applying the latest software update provided by the manufacturer.

The first is the news that the BlackBerry Venice handset will be powered by Android, and one of the slider keyboard based handset will be sold by AT&T later in the year. That Venice will be Android-powered matches previous rumors, but the news of AT&T’s adoption of the Venice makes sense. AT&T has a long associated with BlackBerry, and has already taken a number of the new BB10 powered handsets and requested tweaked designed for its customer base.

We've expected for a month or so that BlackBerry is working on an Android phone with a "dual curved display" that slides up to reveal a physical keyboard underneath. It is supposedly based on a device that was originally announced at Mobile World Congress back in March, and back then the best image we had to go off of was a low-resolution snapshot of the device being held up on stage. Now, Evan Blass (aka @evleaks) has posted a high-resolution render of the device, codenamed Venice, to Twitter.

At Google's recent I/O developers’ conference, Google’s leadership clearly stated that they want Android to be the dominant OS for connected devices and Internet of Things. Like Windows, Android is hardware-agnostic and can easily be applied to any mobile or IoT device. Even more important is that Android serves as Google’s OS/UI to its overall cloud vision, and it is building most of its worldwide ecosystem of products and services channeled through Android.

We've written about Dolphin before: it's an extremely popular emulator for the Nintendo Gamecube and Wii that runs well on modern gaming PCs. The developers have been trying to get it running reliably on Android for years. They're not quite there yet - the software needs a lot of work, and we still need more powerful devices to get a true one-to-one gaming experience. But the NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV, with its ridiculously powerful and video-focused Tegra X1 system-on-a-chip, is getting pretty close.

The Android 5.1 Lollipop update for the Motorola Droid Turbo, Moto X 2013 and Moto X 2014 is now going to be rolled out, much to the delight of Motorola smartphone users. Since it is going to be a phased role out, not all users will be able to enjoy what the update has to offer at the time that it is released to the public.

At OSCON in Portland this year, Donna Benjamin and Gina Likins are combining forces to talk about a topic that is sometimes easily dismissed: conflict resolution. Given the growing need to address conflict in technology, and that even popular projects like the Linux Kernel adopting codes of conduct, it’s no surprise that conferences feature talks on human interaction.

After a delay a couple of days ago, Firefox 39 has finally released. With this release OS X and Linux versions of Firefox are playing catch-up to Windows, they finally received support for SafeBrowsing which helps users identify if a download is malware.

This month marks the third birthday of edX, the online learning platform developed jointly by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In that short time, usage of the edx.org site has exploded. Over 4 million students have taken one of the hundreds of free online courses provided by dozens of prominent universities. Individual courses have had tens of thousands of enrollees in a session.

For the past four years in systemd there's been a Udev accelerometer helper for exposing the device orientation as a property. With the upcoming systemd 222 release, that will change and instead users taking advantage of device orientation information should switch to iio-sensor-proxy 1.0+.

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The Ubuntu MATE project does something very admirable each month. Its makers contribute financially to other open source projects that are being used in the operating system, and that is something that doesn't happen all the often in the FOSS universe.

Wine 1.7 Series Turn Two Years Old, No Sign Of Wine 1.8

Today marks two years since the start of the Wine 1.7 development series. While it's been two years of doing bi-weekly development releases, there's no sign of Wine 1.8.0 being ready for release in the near future.

Leftovers: Software

All the *mm projects now require C++11. Current versions of g++ require you to use the –std=c++11 option for this, but the next version will probably use C++11 by default. We might have done this sooner if it had been clearer that g++ (and libstdc++) really really supported C++11 fully.

I have just released version 1.13 of Obnam, my backup program. See the website at http://obnam.org for details on what it does. The new version is available from git (see http://git.liw.fi) and as Debian packages from http://code.liw.fi/debian, and uploaded to Debian, and soon in unstable.

MusicTube is a very interesting music player designed for multiple platforms using YouTube as the music source. It's not made for locally hosted music, and you can't add other online sources, but YouTube is a huge resource.